- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Civil unions
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- MilitaryAmbiguous
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✖ Unequal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
Public Opinion
History
Current status
(since Dec 23, 1998)
(since Dec 23, 1998)
Legal
Homosexual activity is legal in Chile.
Current status
(since Oct 22, 2015)
(since Oct 22, 2015)
Civil unions
Since 2015, same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples have the same legal protections available to opposite-sex married couples, within a civil union - except for adoption rights and the title of marriage.
Civil unions
Legalization Pending. it is in the same bill that is legalizing gay adoption.
Current status
(since Jul 12, 2012)
(since Jul 12, 2012)
Illegal
Current status
(since Jul 12, 2012)
(since Jul 12, 2012)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The anti-discrimination law penalizes the arbitrary discrimination and includes protection for discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity
Current status
(since Jul 12, 2012)
(since Jul 12, 2012)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The anti-discrimnation law penalizes the arbitrary discrimination and includes protection for discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity
Current status
(since Apr 24, 2013)
(since Apr 24, 2013)
Legal
The Chilean Health Ministry repeals the blood ban after a year of lobbying by the country's leading LGBT organization, Chilean Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (MOVILH).
Equal
Equal Age of Consent Bill is going to come into effect in the next couple years.
Current status
(since Sep 8, 2014)
(since Sep 8, 2014)
Unequal
Age of consent for same sex is 18, for different sex is 14.
Until Sep 8, 2014
Unequal
Article 365 of the Penal Code establishes 18 as age if consent for gay couples, whereas 14 is the standard age if consent for straight couples.
Current status
(since Jun 19, 2015)
(since Jun 19, 2015)
Not banned
Conversion therapy ban pending.
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